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Milestone 394, steps 5-8. Operator: "remove the always on rule functionality as the goal was to not have it at all since it didn't seem to work as expected." Unconditional preload had three failures the retrieval arms do not. It could not be MEASURED — a resident rule is in the context whether or not it mattered, so nothing distinguished "this governed the act" from "this was scenery", and it was the one surface structurally exempt from the scoreboard judging every other. It was SUMMARISED AWAY by compaction while the session went on believing it held the rules. And it CROWDED OUT the few rules that applied with the thirty that did not. WHAT GOES Schema (0100): rules.tier + ck_rules_tier, rule_versions.tier, rulebooks.always_on, and project_rulebook_exclusions — a table recording a project's opt-out of something that no longer binds it unasked. Tools: list_always_on_rules, exclude_always_on_rulebook, include_always_on_rulebook. Service: the same three plus rules_etag_for, _valid_tier and the whole etag family. The SessionStart preload and the write-path staleness arm go with them: nothing is resident, so nothing can have drifted since a session loaded it. THREE CALLS WORTH REVIEWING enter_project got NARROWER, not wider. Its filter was `always_on OR area-tagged`; dropping the tier arm leaves the deterministic half, so a project with no canonical-tagged Systems gets no bulk rules and reaches them by retrieval instead. Dropping the whole clause would have made that payload bigger than the preload this milestone deletes. Backups import tolerantly. A pre-394 archive carries tier, always_on and the retired inception choice; none is read, and the exclusion key is DROPPED rather than remapped, because restoring it would write data that validate_inception now rejects as unknown. The migration is irreversible in the way that matters and says so: downgrade recreates the columns at their defaults and cannot restore which rules were always-on. A value invented to fill a hole is not a measurement. THE INSTRUCTION SURFACES SAY THE HARDER THING Deleting "call list_always_on_rules()" is easy; replacing it is not, because the new model asks a session to trust something it cannot see. All three surfaces now say a session holds nothing, that rules arrive when work matches them, and — the half that got dangerous — that "no rule arrived" means "nothing matched", never "there is no rule". Under residency an empty session was rare and suspicious; it is now the ordinary state of most turns, so reading it as permission is wrong on nearly every turn rather than occasionally. That is #3720's defect at session scale. test_instruction_surfaces_agree is repointed rather than retired: its two halves collapsed into one instruction, and it gains a guard that every surface states what absence means. _INSTRUCTIONS is back at 1999/2000 — the inception clause paid for the longer HOW line. UI (rule 27, and the opportunity step 8 named) The tier selector is gone, and what replaces it is the point: `when_to_apply` is now the field that decides whether a rule is ever seen, so the editor marks it required, warns while it is empty, and both rule lists badge a trigger-less rule "never surfaces". A rule without one is not quiet, it is unreachable. TESTS Two files deleted outright — test_rules_etag.py and test_inception_rules.py tested subsystems that no longer exist. Elsewhere obsolete cases were removed and the rest repointed. One deserves naming: the wiring test asserted the act arms pass no `tier`, which had become an assertion that could not fail. It is repointed onto `kind`, which does still exist and where the same claim is live — a preference must reach a write exactly as a rule does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011cPyzNnegXHr5iRMzzy5KJ
Fabled Scribe
A self-hosted work system-of-record for software projects, built to be driven by Claude Code. Notes, tasks, issues, projects, milestones, rules, and stored processes — reachable from Claude via a built-in MCP endpoint and a bundled Claude Code plugin, with a clean web UI for humans. No in-app LLM; Claude is the sole assistant.
Features
Notes and tasks with a Markdown editor, sub-tasks, milestones, issues, and kanban project workspaces. Stored processes, an engineering rulebook system (with an inception step that decides what each project inherits), and semantic search with proactive knowledge-injection into Claude's context. A knowledge graph, per-user/group sharing, and a built-in MCP server (/mcp) plus a bundled Claude Code plugin so Claude can record and recall your work directly.
Quick Start
Prerequisites: Docker and Docker Compose. No GPU or local model needed — Claude is the sole assistant, reached over MCP.
Download docker-compose.quickstart.yml from this repo, then:
# Optional but recommended — set a secret key
export SECRET_KEY=your-random-secret-here
docker compose -f docker-compose.quickstart.yml up -d
Open http://localhost:5000. The first user to register becomes admin. To connect Claude, create an API key under Settings → API Keys and install the Claude Code plugin — see API Keys & MCP.
Development: To build from source, see Development.
Documentation
| Doc | Contents |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Stack, design decisions, data models, key services |
| Configuration | Environment variables, Docker Compose, production setup, security |
| Features | Detailed feature breakdown and keyboard shortcuts |
| Development | Dev workflow, CI/CD, migrations, release process |
| API Keys & MCP | API key management and Fable MCP install guide |
| SSO / OAuth | OIDC setup for Authentik, Keycloak, and other providers |
| API Reference | All REST API endpoints |
License
This project is privately maintained.